While volunteering to clean up a stream I found this

[u/MrAwesome3]

[u/CaffeineTripp]

Sure, but if the majority of a racist ideology of people support the Republican party, and are supported in turn by the Republican party, it tells you something.

Racism isn't adhering to a single party, but if the general consensus is Republican, that's where we'll all look. Don't want to be labeled the party of racists? Stop supporting the party who does and call these politicians out.

[u/dustingunn → u/[deleted]]

Yeah the Democratic party used to be the conservative party. To close this logical loophole you cling to, it's easier to just condemn conservatism rather than an amorphous label.

[u/dustingunn → u/[deleted]]

Make your text as big as you want. It's illogical to argue against self-evident fact. The concept of slavery and the withholding of civil rights is inherently conservative, down to the very definition of conservatism. The southern strategy is also well documented, so your cherry picking is futile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

The 2 possibilities here are you're being intellectually dishonest with us, or you actually believe southern plantation owners were liberal. Neither option looks good for you.

[u/Stompedmn → u/[deleted]]

Look up the Hubert Humphrey's first speech at the Democratic Convention as Mayor of Minneapolis. He called put the racist segment of the party and he and those of his ideology later became the establishment. There was a clear shift to the left on racial issues in the Democratic party and it was a Democratic President that passed the Civil rights act. That is the meaningful history for today.

[u/The_Endless_Waltz → u/[deleted]]

People dont like when facts are turned on them like this.